WAVE - Wearable Arts Vision in Education - is an initiative of the Mullumbimby
Shearwater Steiner School that brings together students, artists, professionals
in the entertainment industry and in fact the whole community of the
rainbow region of the North Coast of Australia.

WAVE is a live stage show presented over four nights each year in a
spectacular performance of live music, vision, creative artists, student’s
dance, acting, costumes and props, all created on site as part of the
Shearwater School’s education programme. Professionals outside
the school community and the teachers mentor the students in areas of
their interest.

This artistic endeavour emerges from our Spirit, which is deliberately
nurtured at Shearwater. Quiet reflection, combined with artistic risk-taking
encourages the growth of an inner strength prepared to make a statement
of value about a person’s understanding of life.

WAVE provides the context for this by enabling the students and adults
to work cooperatively in a team, to be respected for their contribution,
to realize that dedication and commitment with, and for others, enables
us to achieve beyond our own personal levels. Together, everyone experiences
the creativity of a team where time and talents are shared to create
a greater good.

The competition element of the event sees artists from all over the
world entering pieces of Wearable Art, where the body becomes the canvas
and these expressions are modelled by students and incorporated into
the show.

Pavitar
Debra Turner & Deirdre Korobacz, WAVE

As a student
I have found it to be really exciting and exhausting - WAVE stretches
everyone’s imagination and brings out the best in everyone. You
get along well with people you usually don’t talk to just because
they are involved in the show and we are all working together to bring
it off. And it really brings the curriculum alive and integrates the
learning about art, music, production, catering, promotion, events management,
design and technology and construction